The PHILCO Phorum

Found this today....How in the heck do you turn this thing off?  

the volume knob does not "click" into any sort of OFF postition. 

One of the buttons could be power switch.

Mike probably correct, my 345 T uses a pushbutton on/off. 

Paul

Try the far left button, should be it unless the switch is damaged and someone by-passed it or defective.

Have fixed a few of the push button style off/on switches. The contacts burn up. Ron has a description of how to rebuild the original or I've replaced the old w/a new latching switch. Either way your looking @ killing a Saturday afternoon. Not sure if the '40 models used this set up but the '41 and '42 did. You might want to have a look at the cord to see if it has an inline switch and the internal switch is jumper.

GL

More details on the buttons, per Rider's.

I was just too lazy yesterday to get to the basement where my 42-195 is, and I haven't turned it on for maybe a few months, but I vaguely remember one of the end buttons being the power switch. All these radios are very similar in their construct.

Yep. Its the button on the left.

I picked this up as a "plays fine" radio. The guy had it playing in his garage. It sounds pretty decent. I was more impressed with the condition of the cabinet. No issues in the wood, and the escutcheon has minimal shrinkage, and just a bit of a ripple in it.

I'm not normally attracted to the push button consoles, but for some reason I like this one.

I see Loktal tubes. is that a bad thing?

Can someone tell me what this is? Is it where a phonograph can be hooked up? If so, what kind of plug is that, and could it be adapted so an iPod or music player could be plugged in?

>Can someone tell me what this is? Is it where a phonograph can be hooked up?

I guess you haven't heard of the RP 1 - 4. Philco in their infinite wisdom decide to go wireless early on. For the most part they didn't provide an external in till their post war sets. There is a couple of the 1928/29 sets that have them.
No the connector is for a ant matching transformer to plug into and then you can connect a long wire ant to the set.


GL

The 1940 models did not use a pushbutton power switch, and I don't think that the 1941 sets did either, but most of the 1942 models did, including my 42-327. I'm not sure if it's that the contacts burn out so much as the switch just physically wears out with use, and since it was sort of a unique design compared to 95% of the other sets out there, many owners bypassed the switch in various ways, some worse then others. Before you ask about the escutcheon, unfortunately it's a ten pushbutton model, so there is no direct replacement, but yours does not look too bad for an original, so if it rubs on the pushbuttons I would just adjust the slot accordingly.
Regards
Arran

Fortunately, no rubbing to speak of.

This things has a pretty large speaker, and the chassis is quite clean. It has lived its life so far in a guy's grandmother's living room.

And..BONUS…...no potted plant stains on the top of the cabinet. If fact there are no marks on it at all, and there is some really pretty figure in the center section.

Arran,  at least some of the 41 models used the push button.  My 41-295 made in 1940 had a push button switch that was replaced with a rotary  stuck in the push button hole.  I was able to repair the old switch.

Mmmmmmmmmmm GORGEOUS unit!
If you don't figure it out, I'll come and take it off your hands , ...and then it will be off for you forever. :-)

My tech guy will be getting it in a couple weeks, to do a full electrical restore. But yes, the button on the far left turns it off. I'm not going to be playing it any more until it's restored. Pretty good buzz going on right now.

I like the cabinet. Not a big fan of the dial. Maybe it will grow on me. But the little I did listen to it, the big speaker had some thump to it. So I'll probably be able to ignore the less than favorite dial style.